Thursday, August 22, 2019

Badminton News

At TOTAL BWF World Championships 2019, Basel, Switzerland (Grade 1 - Individual Tournaments)

[R3] Prannoy H. S. (IND,30) l (1) Kento Momota (JPN,1) 19-21 12-21
[R3] (16) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,19) bt (6) Anthony Sinisuka Ginting (INA,8) 21-19 21-13
[R3] (7) Kidambi Srikanth (IND,10) l (12) Kantaphon Wangcharoen (THA,15) 14-21 13-21

[R3] (8) Saina Nehwal (IND,8) l (12) Mia Blichfeldt (DEN,12) 21-15 25-27 12-21
[R3] (5) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,5) bt (9) Beiwen Zhang (USA,10) 21-14 21-6

[QF] (16) Sai Praneeth B. (IND,19) vs (4) Jonatan Christie (INA,4)

[QF] (5) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,5) vs (2) Tzu Ying Tai (TPE,2)

Sai scored straight games win over the top-10 Indonesian, Ginting ... In the quarters, he is facing another top-5 Indonesian player, Jonatan Christie.
Sindhu scored a dominating win against Beiwen Zhang ... Next, she is facing Tzu Ying Tai.
After winning the first game Saina face stiff resistance from Mia ... Both players were neck to neck in the second, Saina saved 5 game points at 18-20, 20-21, 23-24 and 24-25... Mia saved a couple of match points at 22-21 and 23-22 but Mia converted 6th game point ... After that, Saina struggled with the match fitness and Mia took advantage of it for completing an upset win.
Prannoy lost in straight games against Momota ... The expected loss for Srikanth as he struggled in the first 2 rounds ... Wangcharoen won his match comfortably.

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